Radioactive waste reaches water
The studies were carried out by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the behalf of the Department of Energy. According to the reports, waste from at least five of the tanks has seeped 70m belo...
Homes to plug into the Internet
Norweb Communications and Northern Telecom have announced a new high speed communications system which transmits data over powerlines
Flatter TV displays
The cathode ray tube may make a comeback in the TV display wars, with a new amorphic diamond film
Light up your heart
Pacemakers work by sending a electrical pulse from a pacemaker through a lead to endocardial tissue, a layer of tissue which is then simulated inside the heart. The lead passes into the heart through ...
JET sets fusion record
Fusion experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion project in Oxfordshire, UK, are more than halfway to breakeven – the point where the power produced by the reactor equals that supplie...
Students suffer with old equipment
Mercury manometers, out-of-date computers and pressure gauges calibrated in pounds per square inch. These are some of the pieces of obsolete equipment that UK students are using in undergraduate labor...
Empire strikes back
The US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command has fired its Miracl laser at an American satellite orbiting 260 miles above the Earth. The powerful laser, an offshoot of the Strategic Defence Initiat...
Bench-top support
That was the conclusion drawn by John Enderby of Bristol University who gave a presentation on “Experimental physics in the UK: problems and promise” at the British Association‘s sci...
Fractional charge carriers discovered
Electric charge normally comes in an indivisible unit: the charge of an electron. Indeed, quarks were thought to be the only particles with fractional charge – and today they only exist in parti...
Superconductivity: New model goes on the block
Colin Humphreys, head of materials science at Cambridge University, disclosed his ideas at a symposium on the centenary of the discovery of the electron at Cambridge. He has submitted a paper based on...
